Andrews

Things have been really busy over the last few weeks since I was getting everyone ready to go to Andrews, TX to watch my mom graduate.  We are so proud of her.  At 53 years of age she got her college degree.  She is definetly someone to look up to for that.

Well, I survived the six hour drive there.  And I wish that I had a picture to show the look on her face when she uncovered her graduation present from everyone.  Christopher built her a chest of drawers that is absolutely beautiful.  Now she is wanting additinal pieces so that her bedroom suite will match.  LOL.  Apparently Chris did too good of a job.  LOL.

While I was there I got to see someone that I had not see in a very long time.  A couple of guys that I grew up with mother was there.  I will have to admitt she didn't look like she had changed one bit.  If only some of us could be just as lucky.

We got to talk and she told me about the guys and how they were doing.  I will  have to admitt that it really brought back alot of memories.  Mainly the memories envolving the lake that I grew up on and the houseboat that my grandmother had once owned before her passing.

I remember how B would make me laugh no matter how bad things would seem.  I remember one time my dad and grandmother were on the houseboat and we were docked and like usual they got into a big time fight.  They never saw eye to eye.  You could hear them across the whole marina, but there I was sitting up on the hill listening and on the verge of crying because I was so tired of all the fighting.  At the time we lived with my grandmother and there was always some big time fight almost every day.

I remember sitting there when B came up to me and sat next to me.  And he got me to talking.  I don't remember what we talked about just that I remember that it made me feel better.  I remember laughing at some things that he had said.  Then lets not forget the rock fight that got started once his younger brother J came up.  It was a lot of fun.

Between B and J life was most interesting.  You never knew what was going to happen and I will have to admitt that it was the happiest time of my life those long ago summers spent with them.  How I wish sometimes that I could turn back time.  And even though I cannot turn back time I will have to admitt that there have been times in my life that I wish that the guys had not moved away.  They always brought such light into my life with their smiles and mischevious ways.  Good times.